Eric Saeger

My Year in the Online Left (eBook, ePUB)

Social Media, Solidarity and Armchair Activism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 2020, a veteran culture critic took on a social media experiment he called "Supersize Me Twitter" (he refuses to call it "X").

For one full year (which turned into four), he would post about politics every day on "leftist Twitter," but without "choosing a side" between Democrats, socialists, communists or progressives.

This is the story of that bad idea and what he learned during that time.

Informed by such thinkers as Alvin Toffler, Barbara Ehrenreich, Chalmers Johnson, Mark Blyth, Michael Hudson, Clara Mattei, Robert Ovetz, Steve Keen and dozens of others, this book is intended as a "travel guide" for activists, organizers and curiosity seekers alike. It demystifies such recent developments as the decline of corporate social media platforms, the rise of independent media (the "Fifth Estate") as it replaces the mainstream media, "punk economics," divisions within the "online left" itself, and why the US economic system has entered its "late stage capitalism" phase.

The second book from Russian Nazi Troll Bots author Eric Saeger examines what a "unified online left" could accomplish by coming to agreement on real-world objectives, combatting divisive propaganda and joining forces, first by looking at alternative social media platforms, then by looking at the commonalities and differences between liberals and "farther-leftists," and finally by offering practical advice on activist strategies like hashtag campaigns and other techniques that could potentially augment the work of organizers involved in labor, climate and other areas of activism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fells Carson Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781732583535
• Artikelnr.: 70722056

Autorenporträt

Software engineer, music columnist and long-time culture critic Eric Saeger is the author of the 2018 book Russian Nazi Troll Bots: The Busy Person's Guide to How Trump's Trolls Won the Internet, What's Ahead, and What You Can Do, an examination of right-wing internet trolling. He made his mark as a "white hat troll" on the notorious Usenet newsgroup alt.flame during the late 1990s.